At what point does customer service become a joke? It only took 1 1/2 hours on hold to get ahold of somebody at Microsoft, and that was after my first try and getting disconnected after 1 1/4 hours, calling back and getting a recording that just hung up on you, and sending an e-mail that got a "We will get back to you in a week or two" response. ( Read more... )

Christmas was Christmas. Went back to the parents and had a very late breakfast on Christmas Eve day. At least this year there was no drama about bringing anybody home because I don't really have somebody. Potential, but stilll trying t get a feel for things. It's nice to get to se everybody and always, good food, but just seems like something ( Read more... )

Today's adventures took us inland away from the lake we have been spending our time close to. We headed to Sudan, MN, home of Sudan Underground Mine State Park. This was an ion mine that closed up shop in the 60's.

We got there with almost perfect timing for the noon tour. There was a short video introduction then they loaded the group into the ( Read more... )

A good exhausting day today. Drove up the lakeshore until we got to Grand Portage. We were starting to wonder where the state park was as we were coming up on the border patrol checkpoint. Then, I saw the turn off for it almost right in front of the check.

Talked with the ranger there a little bit and proceeded to High Falls. According to the ( Read more... )

Hopped online for a little bit this morning in a hotel parking lot to take care of my required Monday Morning tasks for work. Was hoping to get on at the coffee shop, but they had 5 people in there and acording to the manager, they were too busy to turn the WiFi on. Her logic, everybody would hop on and loiter for hours. I was the only one that ( Read more... )

The afternoon has been very low key. Took an extended nap, longer than I was realy planning and got up about 5. I think this is a good thing, though. I have kinda been feeling run down lately and some good time just resting and relaxing seems to be in order.

Did not really feel like cooking, so headed out on the road, got some coffee, and found a ( Read more... )

Also. Thanks Jay (motoxtop) for finding the link for the LiveJournal app for my phone. Originally was using MobiBlogger, but it does not handle offline mode well at all. Had to retype my post from yesterday after I found out the program did not save the draft for you.

The morning's first adventure was to find breakfast. There does not seem to be much in the area that is open at 7am on a Sunday morning. After a while, found a nice little place in Danger Castle and had a good breakfast.

Next, continued to Gooseberry Falls. They were a nice set of drawn out waterfalls, three main falls. Was a very nice area. ( Read more... )

First leg of my vacation. On my way to Minneapolis for the night. Glad I have a very nice day for driving. :-)

Passed a guy on the road that had a bumper sticker "Real Men Love Jesus" First thing that popped into my head was "Does he have a blow up Jesus doll in his closet?"